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About Sir Thomas Venables, MP, Lord of Kinderton
- Thomas Venables
- M, #69845, b. circa 1514, d. June 1580
- Father William Venables b. c 1479, d. Jul 1541
- Mother Eleanor Cotton b. 1481
- Thomas Venables was born circa 1514 at of Kinderton, Cheshire, England. He married Matilda Needham, daughter of Sir Robert Needham, Sheriff of Shropshire & Cheshire and Agnes Manwaring, circa 1540. Thomas Venables died in June 1580.
- Family Matilda Needham b. c 1515
- Child
- Thomas Venables, Esq.+ b. 1544, d. 8 Dec 1606
- From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2324.htm#... __________________________
- VENABLES, Sir Thomas (by 1513-80), of Kinderton, Cheshire.
- b. by 1513, 1st s. of Sir William Venables of Kinderton by Eleanor, da. and coh. of Richard Cotton of Ridware, Staffs. m. Maud, da. of Sir Robert Needham of Shavington, Salop, 3s. 3da. suc. fa. 31 July 1540. Kntd. 11 May 1544.1
- Offices Held
- Chamberlain, Middlewich, Cheshire 1540-72; j.p. Cheshire 1543-7, q. 1561-d.; sheriff 1544-5, 1556-7; commr. benevolence, Chester 1544/45, musters, Cheshire 1545, 1548, relief 1550, goods of churches and fraternities 1553; gent. of the chamber to Prince Edward by 1547.2
- Thomas Venables came of a family settled in Cheshire since the Norman Conquest. On his father’s death in July 1540 he inherited lands valued by the inquisition at £166 a year. He also quickly took his place in local administration: he was nominated (but not pricked) as sheriff in 1542, brought on to the bench in the following year and made sheriff in 1544. He had first served in the field when he led a contingent under the 3rd Earl of Derby in Lancashire during the Pilgrimage of Grace. In 1544 he took part in the Earl of Hertford’s invasion of Scotland and was knighted at Leith, but when in the following April the 5th Earl of Shrewsbury appointed him to lead 3,000 men against the Scots he excused himself on the grounds that the King had appointed him sheriff of Cheshire ‘during pleasure’ and that he was also commissioned in the marches of Wales to organize coastal defence.3
- Venables made his entry at court before the death of Henry VIII, whose funeral he attended as a gentleman of the chamber to Prince Edward; he retained his status in the Household until at least 1558, when he was listed as an ‘old pensioner’. His standing at court and in the county explains his election to the Parliament of March 1553: he sat with Sir Thomas Holcroft, with whom he had been knighted in 1544 and whose association with the Duke of Northumberland’s supporter Sir Richard Cotton he also shared. With his Catholic leanings (which may help to explain why he had not been pricked sheriff when nominated in the three previous years) Venables could hardly have found this a congenial experience, but he was not above acquiring, as soon as the Parliament was over, 11 salthouses in Middlewich and Nantwich, Cheshire, all former monastic properties, for which he paid £236. His absence from the Commons under Mary did not reflect any estrangement from her government, which he served in his county and which granted him a renewal for 21 years of his father’s lease of the town of Middlewich and the office of chamberlain there. By its terms no free burgess of the town could be made without the consent of the lessee and of the lord treasurer. On its expiry, the lease was granted by Elizabeth to another.4
- Venables sat in Elizabeth’s second Parliament and despite an unfavourable report on his religious outlook in 1564 he was retained as a justice until his death on 19 July 1580.5
- From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/ve... _____________________
- VENABLES, Sir Thomas (by 1513-80), of Kinderton, Cheshire.
- b. by 1513, 1st s. of Sir William Venables by Eleanor, da. and coh. of Richard Cotton of Ridware, Staffs. m. Maud, da. of Sir Robert Needham of Shavington, Salop, 3s. 3da. suc. fa. 31 July 1540. Kntd. 11 May 1544.1
- Offices Held
- J.p. Cheshire from 1543, q. by 1561, sheriff 1556-7, commr. musters by 1545, 1548, to collect relief 1550, for church goods 1553; chamberlain, Middlewich from 1540-72
- The Venables family was one of the oldest in Cheshire, and the title baron of Kinderton a relic of the period when Chester had an administration of its own, with a hierarchy of barons of the county palatine. Venables himself succeeded to property at Kinderton, Eccleston, Bradwall and elsewhere in Cheshire, and to the farm of the town of Middlewich and the office of its chamberlain. No one could be made a freeman without his consent and that of the lord treasurer. He owned ten ‘salthouses’ in Middlewich, and some of his tenants paid him salt as rent.
- By Elizabeth’s accession he had already served three rulers as a soldier and the first household subsidy of the reign assessed him among the ‘old pensioners’ at £66 8s.4d. Although he had been one of the Edwardian commissioners to take inventories of church goods in Cheshire, he disliked the Elizabethan church settlement enough to be classified in the bishops’ letters of 1564 as ‘unfavourable to sound religion’, but not enough to be put off the commission of the peace. Evidence of his participation in at least one local dispute survives: a Chancery writ of elegit was issued early in 1575 against him and his son Thomas on behalf of a creditor, William Bromfield, gentleman pensioner.2
- Venables died on 19 duly 1580. His eldest son Thomas, who was 38 when he succeeded to the estates, married as his first wife a daughter of Sir William Brereton I, and his second son Anthony, also married into the family. A daughter married another Cheshire gentleman, Peter, son and heir of Sir Piers Legh of Lyme.3
- From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ve... __________________________
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Sir Thomas Venables, MP, Lord of Kinderton's Timeline
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Kinderton, Cheshire, England (United Kingdom)
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1532
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Tabley, Cheshire, England (United Kingdom)
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1533
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Cheshire,, Kinderton, Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom
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January 11, 1548
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Kinderton, Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom
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July 19, 1580
Age 69
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Cheshire, England (United Kingdom)
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